William Shakespeare

“ Quite true - when we wikify a typical HTML div block through a template such as {{center}} that has them opening & closing on their own "lines", we wind up inserting paragraph tags (also a block) containing the input text without even realizing it thanks to the wikicoding. This makes the div's class dealing with indentation pretty much pointless and the div's style subject to the paragraph tag's defaults at the same time (thus, your messed up vertical padding) . A block wrapping another block containing just a word or two is the typical example of overkill around here. ”

“ I think the only time I've seen this happen before was when a DjVu file was uploaded, but then had to be altered, at which time we did a re-upload, though I have the feeling I may have seen it once before besides. In those instances, it was a result of some kind of server caching of the first version of the file, and so you just have to wait for the cache to eventually clear; there's nothing you can do at your end because it's not your computer. ”

“ New texts is a place that announces the work on a list on the front page, nothing more. The proofread status of a work is indicated by the setting of the Index: page status, which places a work into the respective categories of Category:Index. We have some other lists around the place where people can add works if they are wanting further proofreading to be undertaken. Nothing systematic, though I do refer to those lists when we have validation month in November. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:04, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
Billinghurst, I thank you for the answer shown above. ”

“ It is not that scalable fonts are copyrighted but rather the computer program which scales a font that is copyrighted. The article you linked to mentioned the EU has an automatic design patent on typeface which expires after three years unless registered. It shouldn't be to hard to find a typeface older than three years, check that it is unregistered and then write our own source code to use the design (or probably re-work some source code that is completely free to handle Gaelic.) ”

“ We would generally reproduce "errors" in a work, though we may note them depending on the context. For the PotM, have a look at Wikisource:Proofread of the Month and the concept is simple, against a scanned work we proofread the OCR text, with the aim to complete the work to validated (each page proofed twice) for presentation. An example of this is this month's Wikisource:Featured texts. We are always open to suggestions for the next work, and love newbies assisting as we find it a great way to work collaboratively and to learn some tricks of the old farts around the site. ”

“ Pages should NOT have been proofread without running headers, and certainly not validated. That's why I asked User:Mpaa to provide me with a list of proofread (and validated) pages without running headers of PSM to correct my earlier mistakes. And, this is where you came in and took some of the list off my hands, and for which I am thankful. Essentially, validating is another set of eyes doing the same proofreading and catching oversights by the first proofreader. I don't think that special instructions are needed for the concept of two sets of eyes being better than one. ”

“ Roughly, a third of our first click-ins originate within en.WS itself, another third from our sisters (well wikipedia really) and the last third completely from Google search results. I get the feeling we're too preoccupied with giving "each other" reach arounds, translation abilities and other types of atta-boys to even capture any of the basic metadata found in most simple PDFs, get that seemlessly up onto Commons & finally over to our mainspace on Wikisource once something has been properly transcribed. ”

“ Perhaps I should be more specific and state that my question is about a lady editor who validates but does not touch running headers and page numbers even when they do not show on her validated work. It is not about you. I do as you do so I am not in the least confused with what you are now writing about. You are a professionalist. You do excellent work. It is unusual to find any mistakes you might make. ”

“ For someone with a working OCR button Can somebody who still has a working OCR on-the-fly button in the Page namespace take a stab at creating a bunch of 1 page or less works listed in Category:Index - Text Layer Requested. The batch of Indexes in question primarily deals with letters from Roosevelt to Churchill but anything with "NARA" in the naming is suspect. As mentioned, these are mostly a single page of content and conveerting them to DjVu just for a dozen lines of text is a waste of time never mind effort. ”

“ Its safe to say most folks since those early days do use the poem for poetry more often than not. Now I know every other application for indentation uses the styling paramater text-indent:xx to achieve indentation,, but that was not the way found to be best here when it comes to poetry is all. The DNB is a compilation of biographies not poetry so its recommended that gap be avoided and the standard text-indent be used is all. ”

“ This will at least make it easier for other Wikisource users to understand the issue and maybe find the problem. I can see that part of the problem is that the Áras an Uachtaráin website seems to be asserting a copyright on these speeches (see the footer of their copy of Michael D. Higgins' Inaugural Address for example) . In the United States, the White House solves this problem with an explicit Creative Commons licence, which would resolve our present problem without the need for more e-mails if we can't solve it some other way. ”

“ Gadelica (http://www.iol.ie/~sob/gadelica/) complies with selection C. But in general it may be necessary for WikiSource to ask Gaelic font designers to provide variations on their fonts in order to comply with a selection according to this second guideline. The reason that few Gaelic fonts comply with selections B or C is that almost all of them place an ampersand glyph in $0026, in the probable belief that this is required by adherence to Unicode — which requires an ampersand character, but not any particular glyph. ”

“ Hesperian 10:29, 15 August 2012 (UTC) "Convenience templates" and a potential bot sounds OK. However, I use templates like {{ts}} partly because I think it would be easier to understand for new, non-experienced users. CSS is gibberish to most people. A table style template simplifies (a little) wikimedia's notoriously difficult to understand table formatting. (Tables have been raised as one reason why some people don't edit Wikipedia et al, and I've met experienced Wikipedians who go a little pale at the thought of creating one) . ”

“ I might even use "Title" for the title page of a book, if it's not part of the flow of numbering and is not the Cover. In fact, it is often the case that the Cover of a book from a library bears nothing of consequence, because the binding was added to the work after publication, so it might be worth noting that a "Cover" with no written or image content may not need to be labelled. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:10, 17 November 2012 (UTC) I've amended the notes to take these suggestions on board. ”

“ Here's the guideline text from Ciarán Ó Duibhín, the author of http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/ : It seems to me that, by adopting existing Gaelic fonts, WITHOUT EXTRA GUIDELINES, WikiSource will take over and institutionalise a problem for the users of most such fonts, in that text processing procedures (such as Google search) will give undesirable results. With extra guidelines governing the adoption of Gaelic fonts by WikiSource, the problem could be avoided. ”

“ Need help creating a Wikisource Index page I uploaded a .djvu file of a public domain story to Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Small_Town.djvu. That seems to be OK. Then I tried creating an Index page for it originally using http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Beginner%27s_guide_to_Index:_files for reference and then some other help pages plus looking at some already uploaded and indexed files. ”

“ Yes, of course, but is it correct for me, or you, or anyone else to validate page after page after page and not include adding the running headers? Some people here on WS are very talented and very much perfectionists while others are not so naturally we are going to encounter differences and all is well on that. We should expect it. I do not do as well as many I have seen do works so I do what I think I can do and I do a lot as many others do. ”

“ The thoughts of the children cling fondly to their good parent; they do not wish to be separated from their good parent. If the parent forsake the children, the children will seek the parent; so do we; we are like those children, and we ask that you will give us your flag to protect us. We have heard that you have taken Rarotonga and the neighbouring islands under your protection, but we remain without anyone to protect us. When we received the news that Rarotonga and the neighbouring islands were placed under your protection, we wept aloud because we were forsaken by you ”

“ You may be misunderstanding the point of Wikisource. We take copyright-free old scans, proof-read them using simple text against those scans per page and then transcribe all the proofread text into a single mainspace article for easier reading. You can then link to that article (which is what is happening on Wikipedia except there is no transcription here on en.WS) . If you just want to store a file for posterity and be able to link to it, you should upload it to Commons instead. -- George Orwell III (talk) 23:33, 28 July 2012 (UTC) Yes, I see what you mean. I think both are a good idea. ”

“ There is a server error. Tried the supposedly working Index, created a page, saved it, and on re-opening, it crashed. There must be a software error of some kind. Also, the navigation arrows to pagination are missing in the Page: namespace.— Ineuw talk 13:25, 29 September 2012 (UTC) You don't have either "real" index: or page: namespaces. No evidence that they exist sitinfo api or existed settings. Looks like you need to get them created through a bugzilla, and the existing pages migrated from the false namespace that exists. ”

“ The administrators would notice if they are in a wrong area and probably just move your work to a proper area. I have done this with several books and as a few articles a few years back. I do not know what rules about that method would be at this time. I did those books a couple of years ago. Everyone is always busy helping others and trying to do works they themselves want to do but after you place a request in Wikisource Scriptorium someone will help you in some manner. ”

“ Bottom line is there is no good fix but several java script hacks have been developed as interim workarounds. This is a continuing problem due to the way that Wikisource was originally set up, though there has been progress, Bugzilla: 32189 promises (well, Siebrand and Roan agree with the solution, so that's as close to a promise as we get unless Brion comments again) to fix the problem - most likely by moving multilingual wikisource (aka "oldwikisource) to mul.wikisource, or at least making mul work for interlanguage links. ”

“ It was marked with the {{incomplete}} tag as it had no contents. I've now loaded a djvu and am in the middle of populating the text (3 out of 15 chapters) of (Darwinism (Wallace) . So it's still incomplete but someone wants to start proofreading. Adding it to category [Wikisource texts needing proofreading] doesn't have seem to have any effect. I can't find any guidance in the Help section (it only talks about page status) . I removed the incomple tag though I don't think that's justified. Guidance please. ”

“ If you are planning for many articles from different years, a structure with Union Record as main page and articles as as subpages, like Union Record/1919/Announcement of General Strike? See also The Times as an example.
If instead you have only a few articles, maybe a simple Announcement of General Strike (Union Record 1919) is enough (to be categorised in Category:Union Records for easy retrieval of articles) .
As you have the scan, you need to set-up an Index page to transclude.--Mpaa (talk) 00:01, 8 November 2012 (UTC) Is there any wizard to help me set up the Index page? ”

“ Londonjackbooks (talk) 00:27, 11 November 2012 (UTC) Not a problem - its just been a crazy week as far as spare free time goes. The reason behind asking for flaws of any sort is to try and bang everything out in one shot so I don't have to keep stuff around on my hard drive to the point where I forget what its for or how far I got in the actual fixing! To me, a missing picture is no different than a missing page except a missing picture typically still has a place holder for the page progression itself. ”